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Mounting Image which is on a USB flashdrive

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I have a new 256 GB USB 3.0 Flashdrive on which I have some ATIH2014 Images which seem fine in all respects. I have used one of them to recover my computer from so that goes well.

BUT, using the same flashdrive ATIH2014 says it "cannot assign drive letter" to the image in Windows 8.1.

Works just fine when the same image is on a USB HDD. Am I missing something?

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No answer to this yet but a workaround.

See thread "Cannot assign a drive letter to a partition from the backup archive". Workaround is to use Windows Explorer to navigate to and through the backup archive to the file(s) you want, and copy.

I would say that the problem you experienced is that your USB drive reports itself to TI as a Removable Media Device instead of a Removable Drive. This is a known problem and causes issues with USB drive access.